Mesolithic tools and carved bones from the Stainton gravel beds.

 

 1 - I found this worked stone about 3 years ago in Stainton beck, I am certain it was washed from the gravel beds, I believe it was some sort of shaft smoother. 

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 8 - If ime honest I can not remember the beck location I found this piece, at first I paid it little attention, thinking it just to be a worn Equus Metatarsal but I now know it to either have been a tool of some sort or a religious or symbolic artifact. The lighter coloured material is actually preserved wood, that has been inserted into the bone.

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 11- 14 This piece I found very close to the stone tool in the first images, I found these pieces a long time ago before I had started any excavating, but have never been in any doubt that they were tools of some sort.

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 15 - 19 Digging tools

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 20 - 22 Carved bone .

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 23 - Carved Artefact

  

 23 - Digging tools found at the Orme bronze age copper mines in Wales.

 

 

 24 a - Fire starter ?

 

 

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 25 a - Worked flint

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 26 a -  More worked bone

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